In true Clarion West Alum style, I am diving into this week slightly belatedly and with no clue what I'm doing! Join me for the ride.

THE CHARACTER: An Owomoyela, your narrator, a graduate of the 2008 class of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, author of various and sundry things.

THE CONFLICT: Your intrepid narrator has agreed to work on a ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I realize how idiosyncratic the shapes and conventions of my world are to their particular points in time. The visual arrangement of the walls and ceiling and doors and decorations in my room are only available as I perceive them from the posture and position in which I sit to observe them, in the time when exigencies of ( Read more... )

Title: To Hold Us To Earth
Rating: T.
Genre: Character study/quiet angst.
Beta: I have not pried into matters.
Continuity: Plays well with canon.
Prerequisites: Orientation in Season 6. Tag to Unnatural Selection, spoilers for Unnatural Selection, references with varying degrees of obliqueness to Abyss, Menace, Enemies, and Small Victories.
Summary: ( Read more... )

Yesterday's xkcd had an interesting challenge in its mouseover-text.


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Every time I see a reference to that line from Emancipation where Jack is reminding Carter about "that time on P3X-595" where she "drank that stuff that made you take off…", I mentally fill in "YOUR HEAD." Because it's so obvious what the joke is going for, and I just really have to subvert it in some way ( Read more... )

Title: The Night, All Along
Author: magistrate
Rating: T.
Genre: Gen character study. Angst, hurt/comfort, a dash of action and drama and a hell of a lot of rambledansen.
Beta:  ...gamma, delta?  No, not really, not at all.
Continuity: Legacy post-ep, but a Legacy AU.  Machello's rapidly gaining notoriety at the SGC as someone for whom collateral damage ( Read more... )

So, Beneath a Beating Sun. The roughly-130k SG-1 fic I've had in the works for fricking EVER. You know what the one vaguely-productive thing I did today was?

That's right, make an index post for it and start mirroring all its chapters on DreamWidth ( Read more... )

...and obviously rather old, judging by the date on the Scalzi post. Still, worth sharing.

John Scalzi has written an eloquent, elegant, and brilliant post up on Whatever: Things I Don't Have To Think About Today.

[...] Today I don’t have to think about the people who’d consider torching my house of prayer a patriotic act ( Read more... )

I spent most of yesterday beating fanfic into shape, which is something I haven't done in a good long time. But yesterday was something of a special occasion: just under a week ago, I finished Beneath a Beating Sun in draft, and on Sunday, I'd finished my preliminary polishing of the first 16 chapters. (The 18th - final - chapter still needs more ( Read more... )

...which may say a lot about my headcanon and very little about anything else, but wahey.

The Sam Carter in my head just kinda... loves people, occasionally falls in love with people, without any expectation that things can, should or will come out of it. Love is this anomalous emotional stimulus with no ingrained response, for her. It's a ( Read more... )